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Der Foschungsstandort
Bremen und Bremerhaven
Young University town
Bremen is a comparatively young university town,
Bremen University
not being established until 1971. In just three decades it has
already reached the status of an internationally renowned research
university. In 2001 the International University Bremen (IUB) was
founded, one of the most remarkable innovations in contemporary
German science history. Studies of more practical relevance are the
domain of the Bremen
University of Applied Sciences, whereas the
Bremen University of Arts specialises in interdisciplinary art
studies and the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven above all
contributes competence in maritime studies. Sixth member of the team
is the Civil Service College. Moreover, some 150 research
institutions are located in and around the towns on the Weser, some
of them embedded in the universities.
Science as the Motor of Regional Development
In our modern world, science plays a crucial role as the motor of structural
change, innovation and modernisation in the State of Bremen. The economy and
science constitute a tandem: together with
culture they embody
the City State's future potential. More than 3,000 scholars and scientists, as
well as some 32,000 students and almost 7,000 employees in the
Technology Park
fill the brand "city of science" with life.
Research Profile
Strong Subjects
In effect, with respect to both teaching and research, the science spectrum
covers the entire range of academic disciplines, from A for Architecture to Z
for Zoology, all bound up in a diversified science system (link to research
infrastructure). Yet, Bremen has opted to concentrate on a selection of the
foremost research areas that correspond with the primary fields of innovation
(as identified in the innovation programme InnoVision 2010). These scientific
strengths lie in nine areas:
Marine Sciences, Materials Sciences, Environmental
Sciences, Information and Communication Technologies, Logistics/Telematics,
Aeronautical and Space Research, Health and Healthcare Sciences, Social
Sciences: Statehood and the Welfare Sate, together with the Neuro and Cognition
Sciences.
Marine Sciences,
Materials Sciences,
Environmental
Sciences,
Information and Communication Technologies,
Logistics/Telematics,
Aeronautical and Space Research,
Health and Healthcare Sciences,
Social
Sciences: Statehood and the Welfare Sate together with
the Neuro and Cognition
Sciences.
Research Concentrations
Germany's greatest marine research potential is located in Bremerhaven und
Bremen. Likewise, the State of Bremen is an important location for research on
the global environment and climate. This research concentration has established
itself as a "Center of Excellence", incorporating i.a. the Alfred Wegner
Institute for Polar und Marine Research (AWI) and the "Ocean Rims Research
Center" embedded in the University of Bremen.
Research on materials is a significant scientific field that focuses on the
materials and processes of the high-tech future. A number of renowned research
institutes have located themselves around the University, e.g. the Institute for
Materials Engineering (IWT), the Fraunhof Institute for Manufacturing and
Advanced Materials (IFAM), the Bremen Institute of Industrial Technology and
Applied Work Science (BIBA), and the Bremen Institute of Applied Laser
Technology (BIAS).
Environmental research in Bremen focuses on areas of product and production-
integrated environmental protection, decontamination/self-
purification/melioration/, recycling, risk research with regard to humans and
the environment, as well as on the development of biosensors. Chief co-ordinator
is the Center for Environmental Research and Technology (UFT). A special feature
is the combination of natural science and the social sciences. The Institute of
Environmental Physics contributes to research on the atmosphere, oceanography
and the cryosphere, among other things by means of distance research and
satellite observation.
In the field of modern Information and Communication Technologies, the State of
Bremen has pinned its aspirations above all on mobile data processing, a key
technology of the 21st century. Bremen is a location for mobile communications
not only in the strict scientific sense, with the University's Center for
Computing Tchnologies (TZI), or the Center for Information and Communications
Technology (ikom): Research scientists in Bremen are also able to tap a vibrant
business scene, for instance in the network "Mobile Solution Group", and they
find the most modern infrastructures at their disposal.
The economic sectors comprising port activities and logistics are just as much
today as in the past powerful motors of growth for the Bremen economy. They have
nurtured the scientific know-how that made Bremen into a center of excellence
for all matters surrounding logistics and telematics. Pioneers of 'Logistics
Company Bremen' with an increasing focus on innovative IC technologies, have
been the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics along with the Bremen
Institute of Industrial Technology and Applied Work Science (BIBA) and, of
course, Bremen University.
Bremen is the European center of manned space travel and an important location
for the aeronautics industry. This has given rise to a scientific infrastructure
that seeks its match in Germany. The Bremen Drop Tower is unique in the world.
It incorporates a research laboratory that is specialised in experiments under
conditions of weightlessness, and stands as a symbol of the State's scientific
prowess that can literally be seen from afar. Its success story began in the mid
80s when the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen took up its work.
The health sector is set to become one of the most significant branches of
growth in the 21st century. Bremen has duly built up its own research
concentrations in the fields of Public Health (including healthcare research)
and Medical Equipment Engineering/Computer Science for Medicine, bundling them
in the Center for Public Health. Moreover, Bremen University was the first in
Germany to include Healthcare Sciences as a separate subject of study. The
health sector is also at the center of research at the Bremen Institute of
Prevention Research and Social Medicine (BIPS).
The change brought about to statehood through European integration and
globalisation, as well as the modernisation of the welfare state and its
financing system in the wake of demographic and technological developments,
confront us with enormous challenges. The Collaborative Research Center
'Satehood in Transformation' and the Graduate School of Social Sciences make up
the core of a 'center of excellence' in social science that endeavours to
deliver remedies for pending social issues. The focus of research at the Center
for Social Policy (ZeS) at Bremen University is on the German welfare state in
all its facets.
Brain research is a spectacular field of research. Moreover, the neuronal
foundations of perception, cognition, feelings and behavioural patterns are
attributed a key function in the scientific development of forthcoming decades.
Bremen is making a groundbreaking contribution to this development with the
Center for Cognition Sciences, a Collaborative Research Center, and the Hanse
Institute for Advanced Study in co-operation with Oldenburg University.
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